The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

order for 10000 old tomato cans. The dealer
explained that much of this kind of tin is used
for corners and edge pieces on a low grade Of
trunks while many people use 1t for hushlngs
on roofs. The dealer is obliged to melt the
solder of. straighten the cans out INTO nat
sheets, pack the pieces in fiat bundles for ship
ment, and only gets about $40 per ton for his
trouble
IL Philadelphia the school rule requiring
scholars TO bring physicians certificates in case
there is any sickness in the family is certainly
enforced. The other morning a teacher saw
doctor enter the home of pupil who appeared
in school soon after without a certificate. Go
right home" said the teacher and don t re-
turn until you have certificate from the doc
tor The child disappeared, but soon after re-
turned gleefully approaching her teacher, eX-
claimed: Please. ma am, but it's a little boy
baby-and the doctor says it isn't catching
THERE is a cheap restaurant in New York that
feeds 5000 people day 1t is never closed, nor
night nor day, and has three different relays of
walters, cooks. cleaners, cashiers and other
hands. 1t is not noted in the city, but is famous
in all the country towns and villages in New
FORK State, New Jersey and Connecticut, which
are its chief source of patronage. How many
reservoirs of soup and how many tons of beef it
consumes daily are matters for the conSldera
ton of metropolitan correspondents of country
newspapers. But the figures are astounding
and interesting without sensational elaboration
THE picturesque castle of st. Angelo at Rome
is no more to be the scene of those annual fire
work displays for which it has become famous
A commission appointed by the Minister of Pub
lie instruction, who has jurisdiction in these
matters, in consequence of the castle being an
ancient monument e., Hadrian'S mauSoleum
has reported that the fixing of the great set
pieces intiictS great damage on the building, and
that last year great holes were knocked into its
walls by the pyrotechnlcs, so the Minister mas
forbidden its further devotion to rockets and
squibs, and the municipality is at its WIS ends
LONG JOIN WENTWORTH, of Chicago, is
erecting an immense granite monument for
himself. When asked the other day what
epitaph he would put on it he replied: Nothing;
not a word. It's going to be just like me-
plain. unsophsticated monument. Then a
man Il come along and say, Whose monument
that: and somebody I'll say, Wentworth. Then
the man'I say, Wentworth: Who's Went
WORTH And he'll go and buy biography of
me and remember it. If had big inscription
on it man'd say. Wentworth, humph! Went
worth, eh.' and go on and forget all about it be-
fore he got out of the cemetery"
y CORRESPONDENT from Marking, China, under
date of Feb. Is, says: "One of the missionaries
had occasion to send for an official on the night
of Feb. II to disperse a crowd which had gath
cred at his gate clamorng to have him come out
and clear away the fog, which was very dense,
and which they claimed he had brought on"
The ShuapdO mentions that on the night of Feb
- the city of Marking was enveloped in a dense
fog, and the street lamps, which were 100 feet
above the ground, were invisible. On the fol-
lowing night the fog was accompanied by
smell of sulphur, which caused the inhabitants
to fear that there was a confagration. 1t, how
ever, disappeared in about two hours.
ASTONISHING as the statement may appear, it
is nevertheless fact that there are within
the borders of the State of Colorado the wealth
in coal of two even three States like Pennsyl-
vania-coal sufficient to meet the demands of
the nation. even for many decades if not cen
turtles, to come. For the vast trans Missouri
country, eastward even to the valley of the Mis-
sisSippi, Colorado is the great present and future
storehouse of the fuel which the demands and
necessities of its varied commercial and indus
trial life will require. Many generations hence,
when Colorado shall have become an old State,
when the frontier days shall have been forgot
ten, when gold and silver mining shall have
ceased to be profitable, even then will the coal
| fields of Colorado be yielding their hidden treas
ures of fuel to supply the demand.
THE handwriting of Attorney General Garland
once seen would ever after be recognized. 1t is
distinctly the worst in the Cabinet, and is a
| series ST scratches to the uninitated His sigma
| ture can never be developed into A. H. Garland
even by his intimates. He writes A II. and
| Ark very plainly and the Ark goes with every
| signature, so that those who know his initials
and the State he halls from can guess at the rest.
| The Garland is written as though it spelled
| Earle and it has frequent Y been so deciphered.
| A friend of the Attorney General in Arkansas in
reply to a letter from Mr. Garland addressed it
A. H. Earle, and it took no little time to con-
vince the law adviser of the Cabinet that the in
correct spelling of the name was not for the
| purpose of ridiculing his signature. The At
tOrney General thinks he writes his name legi-
bly,.
THE players whose dead comrades are buried
by the command of resistlesS sentiment from
THE Little Church Around the Corner" in New
York, upon whose quaint presentiment Joseph
jefferson invoked Gods blessing. frequently
complain of the provoking indistinCtness of the
service. save the choral feature. The reading of
the Scriptures and the information of the sublime
form sanctioned by the episcopacy for funeral
| observances are generally most incoherent and
leave no more of intended impression on the I'M
familiar than if recited in a foreign tongue
| The cause of complaint is attributed to the age
and infirmity of the venerable and beloved
rector but the help of a vigorous young assist
| ant, with just elocutionary pretentions, could
| readily be secured. "Ah!" was the recent COM
ment of an old actor IF they would let one of
| our profession be selected for the purpoSe You
remember the story about the elder Booth re-
citing the Lord 5 Prayer. il was revelation to
| the listening Minister'S
SENATOR HEARST, of California, is a big man
of generous nature, fond of companionship and
exceedingly cordial to his friends. He has been
in New York frequently of late, making his
headquarters at the Hoffman House. 1t is re-
ported that within a short time he has become
dNSoCldUHu WIN TWO OF Unree OJfer wealthy Cali
fornans, who made their money in gold mines
and syndicate of New York capitalists to oper-
ate in the mining of gold on the Pacific coast
in South America. The gold belt is said to
stretch all the way from Alaska down to Peru
on the Pacific coast, and Californans are begin
ming to look up and down the coast in both di
rections for new fields of mining ven
ture. In chat with friends the other
day Senator Hearst said that he an
ticipated u revival of activity in gold mining
within the next year or two. Senator Hearts
wealth is estimated at as much as So, 100000
His education has been classical A story is
told that two Californians engaged in dispute
one day over the proper method of speaking
They agreed to leave il to the next man they
saw, who happened to be George Hearst. He
was seated on the stOop Of hotel with his feet
on the railing. one of the gentlemen stepped
up to him and said 'Sr, my friend and have
been having dispute about matter of speech
We have agreed 10 leave it to the next man we
meet Are you grammaranY" "A what?''
asked Senator Hearst. "A gTammarianyn was
the repeated inquiry. ''No, sir Not by long
sight" was the emphatic response, II am Mis-
sourian"
TIE Empress Eugenie is going TO pay a visit
to her native land. She has not been in Spain
since 1866 when she went there with a double
object. One was to bring the Spanish govern
ment to send an army corps TO Rome to protect
the Pope and so enable the French 10 come
away. The other was To- influence the Spanish
Court of Appeal before which there was a long
pending suit brought by the relatives Of the
Empress Eugene on the Monuio side against
ut.aA Al a